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The only way to fail the VK test is to be driven to anxious upset by it.
The only way to pass the VK test is to disengage from it, affectively.

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no niplav you don't just send "ex falso quodlibet" in a conversation with a woman you barely know

i might bother enoguh to actually sign up for this

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A language where the three genders are soulless, ensouled, and God

downloading worm as a pdf was a mistake

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adventures in bayesian medicine: when diagnosing mad cow disease, you need to consider not only the evidence but also your prions

okay new task find all the papers in which people have undergone the CPT and do a meta-analysis

Would it be a good thing if someone wrote a Wikipedia article on neural network scaling laws?

daygame locations as a multi-armed bandit

guy who would rather read than meditate

optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing

a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!

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